Konrad Tuchscherer (born February 16, 1970, in Neenah, Wisconsin) is an educator, scholar, writer, and public intellectual.

Tuchscherer currently serves as the co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Cameroon and is associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at St. John's University (New York City).

Tuchscherer is associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at St. John's University (New York City).

His important research on the origin, development and spread of writing in Africa has appeared in several leading journals: the Bagam script of Cameroon in African Affairs, the Vai script of Liberia in History in Africa,[1][failed verification] the Mende script of Sierra Leone in African Languages and Cultures[2][failed verification] and Journal of African Cultural Studies[3] and Egyptian hieroglyphs in Africana Bulletin.

As of 2007, Tuchscherer was writing a book entitled Black Scribes that explores the history of the written word in Africa from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern West African alphabets.